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ACEP Now: Vol 33 – No 02 – February 2014References
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One Response to “Does a 10-Item Physical Exam Add Value to Patient Care?”
November 25, 2014
The Land of Protocols - LITFL[…] A recent article in ACEP Now provides a particularly pernicious set of recommendations that explicitly and implicitly would lead to avoidance of much of the physical exam (only 10% yield in diagnoses – ignoring the much lower yields in ACS rule-outs and CT PE studies in low yield patients), deceiving our patients as we knowingly performing useless bedside maneuvers for show, and fabricating medical records for billing purposes. It’s one of the most disturbing articles I’ve read recently. […]